Myrna McCallum

Myrna McCallum is a former
prosecutor and Indian Residential School adjudicator who encourages
other lawyers to become trauma-informed as their personal act of
reconciliation. She educates leaders, lawyers, law schools, legal
advocates and judges on trauma-informed advocacy through keynotes,
workshops and lunch and learn sessions. She practices in the area of
human rights and conducts workplace investigations while also serving as
an advisor to the federal government and organizational leaders on how
to address gender-based violence and sexual misconduct through policy
and procedure in a trauma-informed manner. Myrna is a former
residential school student who is a grateful parent to three young
adults and kokom (grandmother) to three sweet babies. She is from Green
Lake and Waterhen Lake First Nation in Treaty Six territory.

If your firm or organization is interested in becoming trauma-informed, you may contact Myrna at myrna@miyopimatisiwin.ca

Shain Jackson, Cultural Awareness Consultant

Shain Jackson is Coast Salish from the community of Sechelt. He is a former lawyer and the President of Spirit Works Limited, an Indigenous owned and operated art studio.

In addition to creating culturally specific art pieces both large and small and initiating art projects which serve to preserve and protect the oral histories and traditional practices of various BC First Nations, Shain designs and facilitates cultural workshops for at-risk Indigenous youth, members of the judiciary, and non-Indigenous leadership executives.